From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13601 invoked by alias); 22 Jul 2009 18:11:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 13591 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Jul 2009 18:11:23 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_SOFTFAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mtaout6.012.net.il (HELO mtaout6.012.net.il) (84.95.2.16) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:11:15 +0000 Received: from conversion-daemon.i-mtaout6.012.net.il by i-mtaout6.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KN7001003OZXG00@i-mtaout6.012.net.il> for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:11:10 +0300 (IDT) Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.240.193]) by i-mtaout6.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KN70078V3UKY250@i-mtaout6.012.net.il>; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:11:08 +0300 (IDT) Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:15:00 -0000 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: [rfc] [4/9] Cell multi-arch: Core of the Cell debugger In-reply-to: <200907221716.n6MHG3YW013797@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com> To: Ulrich Weigand Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii Message-id: <83y6qg4mgz.fsf@gnu.org> References: <200907221716.n6MHG3YW013797@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-07/txt/msg00559.txt.bz2 > Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:16:03 +0200 (CEST) > From: "Ulrich Weigand" > > Index: src/gdb/NEWS > =================================================================== > --- src.orig/gdb/NEWS > +++ src/gdb/NEWS > @@ -204,6 +204,20 @@ architecture in addition to those for th > See the "Target Description Format" section in the user manual for > more information. > > +* Multi-architecture debugging. > + > + GDB now includes general supports for debugging applications on > + hybrid systems that use more than one single processor architecture > + at the same time. Each such hybrid architecture still requires > + specific support to be added. The only hybrid architecture supported > + in this version of GDB is the Cell Broadband Engine. > + > +* GDB now supports integrated debugging of Cell/B.E. applications that > +use both the PPU and SPU architectures. To enable support for hybrid > +Cell/B.E. debugging, you need to configure GDB to support both the > +powerpc-linux or powerpc64-linux and the spu-elf targets, using the > +--enable-targets configure option. > + > * New commands (for set/show, see "New options" below) > > find [/size-char] [/max-count] start-address, end-address|+search-space-size, This part is OK.